#May2014
Oculus wants to build BILLION-PERSON MMO with Facebook. AIM LOW AMIRITE LOL?
Ah, corporate hyperbole! I love this shit. Tell me all about your hopes and dreams, wizards of crafting press releases! Visionaries with too much money!, pepper me with your Future. And then give me my Snow Crash wet dream, okay?
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HBO shows going to AMAZON PRIME. ‘Cept like no ‘THRONES’, man.
Great news, Amazon Prime customers! (Hi!). Well, except for those Amazon Prime customers who have HBO (Hi!). The Prime Service has signed a deal with the Home Box Office to bring a litany of shows to their streaming service. The only caveat? Some select fucking shows aren’t offered. Like you know. Thrones. And True Detective. #SMH as they say.
Dude accused of using A DRONE to sneak drugs INTO PRISON. Future++
All sorts of futuristic bullshittery dropping this week. A Bitcoin exchange may or may not be stealing like millions or whatever from its users while crying poverty. And now a man is accused of using a drone to deliver drugs to a prison. Amazon Prime Air ain’t got shit on this dude.
COMPUTER MADE A GAME BY ITSELF. Entered Into Competition. It’s All Over.
Wait computers haven’t made games yet? I just sort of assumed. Maybe it’s because I wear tight leather pants, jack into the Matrix nightly, and generally stick Neuromancer up my ass while wearing sunglasses in the middle of a dark room. Still though, this is pretty gnarly. And terrifying.
AMAZON PrimeAir = Thirty-Minute DRONE DELIVERIES. Future Madness++
If we didn’t perform this action already, it’s time we knelt down at the idea that we’re in a William Gibson novel and worshipped the concept. Amazon is aiming to bring thirty-minute deliveries to our impatient, consumerist asses. How are they going to pull off such a feat, you ask? Drones. Fucking drones.
LIGHTBULBS THAT EMIT WI-FI EXIST. Future++
Chinese scientists are looking to kill two birds with one stone. Or is it one bulb?! LOL! Shit word play. Is it even word play? Uh — anyways. Yeah. So Shanghai’s Fudan University’s has created a light bulb that also emits a wireless signal. Pretty radical.
Amazon’s ‘KINDLE MATCHBOOK’ bundles PHYSICAL and DIGITAL COPIES. Frak yes.
Rad ass. Sort of. Amazon is going to begin offering a digital copy of physical books that you snag. For a teeny fee. Frankly, I’m there. Maybe it’s bullshit or whatever that they’re going to charge the extra dough, but I’m a sucker. For far too long I’ve groused that I couldn’t lend a friend a hard copy of a book that I snagged for my Kindle. Or add it to my physical library, as a monument to my literary materialism.
Wut: Researcher CONTROLS HIS COLLEAGUE’S MOTIONS with Noninvasive BRAIN-TO-BRAIN INTERFACE.
Well, this is unreal. Researchers believe that they have performed the first noninvasive human brain-to-brain interface. This is the sort of future-porn nausea that has me simultaneously clapping. And puking. Just roll with it, Caff. There ain’t anything else you can do.
Scans of RAY BRADBURY’S 1939 ZINE ‘FUTURE FANTASIA’ NOW ONLINE
Here is some fiery retro-future hotness upside your head. The Ray Bradbury’s zine from way (way) back in the day has found itself nestled in the digital age, upon the glorious technological waves of the Internet. In other words, them scans of the aforementioned fucker have been posted online.
Hit the jump for more info.
US District Court says BITCOIN is REAL MONEY.
Ah, my fluid-covered copy of Neuromancer loves this development. A US District Court Judge Person said that Bitcoin can be used as actual money. Naw I’m not really sure about all the legalese behind it, I just know that this is the future that Max Headroom promised me.
